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"Is there a typo in the title? Don't you mean Valentine's Day", I'm hearing you ask? 

Nope - Galentine's Day is a concept, or holiday, created by Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec. It takes place on February 13, when, in her words, "My lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It's like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas." 

So basically, it's a time for us babes to kick it back at brunch while celebrating ourselves and each other, and telling Valentine's Day to do one. Sounds pretty good to me! In the spirit of this great day, here are some of the best Galentine's Day tweets on the internet; inspired by Leslie Knope's genius, empowering women the world over, and giving strong female friendships the credit they deserve. 

Twas the night before Thanksgiving, also known as Friendsgiving Eve! And with Friendsgiving comes food, friends, and compilation of tweets as to how Friendsgiving looks to a majority of the world.

Here are some of the best Friendsgiving tweets we can find, from those stressed about the planning process (like everyone in the world, amirite?) to those perplexed that anyone could have so many friends.

Enjoy!

Welcome to your 30s! Everything hurts and friendship are the rarest commodity around! Hang onto those friends when you reach 30, they're scarce to come by! 

The recent ad campaign from Ikea in the United Arab Emirates took the massive IKEA catalog and managed to recreate the famous living rooms from The Simpsons, Friends, and Stranger Things. Vinod Jayan, managing director for IKEA in the UAE, shared his thoughts about the campaign: "The Ikea team worked closely with the creatives for months. They went through hundreds of items to find the perfect pieces that would bring those iconic rooms. It was a great collaborative effort that led up to a stunning result". Well, what can we say... we admire their creativity.  

Nothing like some wholesomeness to bring warmth back into your cold heart! Here is a mini collection of AskReddit questions all about friendship! 

Real friends are important, they lift and support you. You can feel the love these friends have for this user who was harassed by a so-called mutual "friend". The story was posted on Imgur by user CLOSEENOUGHDESIGNS.

Road trips are always fun. Music, friends, laughing and singing. But sometimes someone gets a little tired and decides to take a little nap... that's what happened with Eria's boyfriend Scott! He had fallen asleep in the car, so she playfully asked people on the "I'm Telling God" Facebook group. If you've never heard of this group, now is the time to go check them out! It's a group that specializes in the dankest of memes, and some photoshop masters who gladly photoshopped in some epic scenes to show sleeping Scott, what he missed...

Sometimes we see what we want to see. And we forget that there is a whole picture, another side, a different perspective. Sometimes we need to take a step back, to see it all or refocus. And sometimes, we need to be reminded that not everything is as it seems, that there might be so much more. So when this happened to @Thomas_Mcfall, he had to share the moving story via Twitter. 

So true!